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After Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in September 2017, emergency response teams rushed to support survivors of the deadliest and costliest storm ever to hit the island. Among them was a team of ...

June Isaacson Kailes lives 8 or 9 miles away from the evacuation zone for the Los Angeles wildfires. But even before the fires started, she had plans for how she’d escape in the event of a disaster.

David Whalen leads the Emergency Management Disability Awareness training March 27 at Columbia College. The training connected first responders, other emergency management organizations and people ...

When forecasters projected Hurricane Ida was going to hit New Orleans in August of 2021, Ashley Volion was not sure what she would do. Volion, who works as a policy analyst at Disability Rights ...

According to the 2024 Nepal Disaster Report, 32,375 disaster incidents occurred between 2018 and 2024. These disasters took ...

This article is authored by Tanya Verma, research fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi.

As Reda Rountree and her family packed their bags and prepared to flee their Highland Park home on Jan. 7 amid Eaton Fire evacuations, she realized in horror that her wheelchair would not fit in their ...